We're reading Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in my English class right now. Just got the book, I'll probably read it on Sunday. And after this book and essay, we'll be finishing up our unit of books (Long Day's Journey into Night, Death of a Salesman, and the one we are reading now). We've also read Huckleberry Finn, The Sun Also Rises, The Great Gatsby, Langston Hughes poems and All the King's Men. We should have read Moby Dick, too, but my English teacher hated that book so much. Same with Catcher in the Rye last year (oh well, read that one on my own anyway).
Not including the book we've just started, Long Day's Journey into Night and The Great Gatsby have been my favorites so far. The Sun Also Rises was a little dull for my taste; Huckleberry Finn was good at first but started declining with each chapter; Death of a Salesman was pretty good but I lost respect for Willy throughout that book; All the King's Men is a close third, but there was a small part of the ending that bugged me.
The Great Gastby is one of the worst books I've ever read. I hated it so much. ;_;
How the intercourse doesn't your teacher like Moby Dick? It's amazing.
The Lord of the Flies
Things Fall Apart
Shadow ofthe Wind
Those are the books i have to have read in under a month before the end of spring break. Each one has to have an essay written for it too. Pretty much have to read a book for each week an a half. If i said my list of books for the year, i would be here for a while. -_-
Quote from: RedSox on February 26, 2010, 05:15:24 PM
The Great Gastby is one of the worst books I've ever read. I hated it so much. ;_;
How the intercourse doesn't your teacher like Moby Dick? It's amazing.
Moby Dick might as well me called "How To: Whaling"
jeez most of that book is just explaining how to kill the thing
Lord of the Flies [done]
1984 [done]
Anthem [probably won't read]
The Good Earth
Of Mice and Men [probably won't read]
A Tale of Two Cities [done]
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Catcher in the Rye [done]
A Separate Peace
Ordinary People [currently reading]
Macbeth [currently reading]
Silas Marner
Pride and Prejudice
Crime and Punishment [done]
Anthem and Of Mice and Men we probably won't read because we won't get the time this year.
Boy, do I love Honors English.
Quote from: Razgriz2489 on February 26, 2010, 05:24:58 PM
Things Fall Apart
One of my all time favorite books.
Quote from: Agent Norman Jayden on February 26, 2010, 05:34:45 PM
1984
Of Mice and Men
A Tale of Two Cities
A Streetcar Named Desire
Macbeth
Also all good. Of Mice and Men is worth reading on your own, and the movie is good too. Macbeth is my favorite Shakespeare play, and Streetcar is my favorite Williams. Catcher is vastly overated.
All of my "assignments" are a book of a type. (Ex. Fiction, Non Fiction, Biography, etc.)
Quote from: Agent Norman Jayden on February 26, 2010, 05:34:45 PM
Anthem and Of Mice and Men we probably won't read because we won't get the time this year.
Anthem is weird but is great, probably the best one on that list.
I feel sorry that you had to read Death of a Salesman. We have to read The Crucible, which isn't much better, but at least it has Daniel Day-Lewis.
Uh crap... i gotta do a 4000 word minimum essay response to each of the books im reading throughout spring break. So much for getting a break >:(
Quote from: Cornwad on February 26, 2010, 08:11:49 PM
Anthem is weird but is great, probably the best one on that list.
That pretty much describes Rand's works in general.
Since the start of high school:
The Pearl
The Old Man and the Sea
The Good Earth
Great Expectations
The Odyssey
The Stranger
A Separate Peace
The Count of Monte Cristo
Things Fall Apart
The Count of Monte Cristo was my favorite read. It's gotta be up there as one of my favorite books I've ever read. The plot's just so exciting. Things Fall Apart was just plain annoying, impossible to remember all the names and poop. The Odyssey we never finished because we only read fragments of it in English class. The Stranger was kind of good just because it was short, sweet, to the point, and not all that boring. The Pearl and The Old Man and the Sea were just intercourse ing painful to read (THEY DRAGGED ON FOR LIKE FOREVER), while Great Expectations was just plain poop. I don't care how highly regarded of a book it is, it's just complete poop and a waste of time. The Good Earth was okay, but I don't recommend it. And A Separate Peace was just intercourse ing depressing. Not because of the plot, because people die in books all the time (and this death was just plain unusual). I have my own immature reasons as to why that book was so intercourse ing depressing.
Quote from: BOREDFANBOY on February 26, 2010, 06:50:44 PM
One of my all time favorite books.
Also all good. Of Mice and Men is worth reading on your own, and the movie is good too. Macbeth is my favorite Shakespeare play, and Streetcar is my favorite Williams. Catcher is vastly overated.
I did not like Things Fall Apart really. It just seemed a little too bland to me. However, it's just way too intercourse ing confusing to figure out why Okonkwo killed himself. I mean really, for a guy who considers himself to be one of the toughest guys in his clan, he's a real vagina-y.
I, as well, read Of Mice and Men by myself. It was pretty good. I recommend it.
I can't really recall everything I've read.
In no particular order:
A good number of Shakespeare works (Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet), Oedipus, The Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Pearl, Of Mice and Men, and the Death of a Salesmen are ones that I can remember in particular.
I guess I'll do what NintendoMan74 did and post the books I've read since the start of high school:
9th Grade:
1. The Alchemist
2. Anthem
3. Romeo and Juliet
4. The Odyssey
5. Julius Caesar
10th Grade:
6. Metamorphosis (WORST BOOK I'VE EVER READ!)
7. Chronicle of a Death Foretold
8. The Count of Monte Cristo (Amazing book! The tests were killer, but the book was amazing.)
11th Grade:
9. The Great Gatsby
10. A Streetcar Named Desire
11. Their Eyes Were Watching God
12. Death of a Salesman (Not one of my favorites...)
13. The Catcher in the Rye (One of my favorites)
14. Huckleberry Finn
15. The Old Man and the Sea (I think this is the one we have to read 4th quarter.)
Grade 9:
Romeo and Julliet was the only story of note that year, everything else we read was poopty and no one here would ahve even heard of them.
Grade 10:
To Kill a Mockingbird
Dr. Faustus (Marlowe>Shakespeare)
The Chrysalids (some poopty Canadian sci-fi book that ended with debilitating silly-string)
Grade 11:
Lord of the Flies
Ender's Game (ISU)
Macbeth
The Old Man and the Sea
Quote from: BOREDFANBOY on February 26, 2010, 06:50:44 PM
Also all good. Of Mice and Men is worth reading on your own
This. That was a pretty nice book.
Let's see. I read (I think this is in order):
9th grade:
Of Mice and Men, To Kill a Mockingbird, Romeo and Juliet, Speak
10th grade:
A Separate Peace, Night (Elie Wiesel), Lord of the Flies, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar (well, "read", the teacher told us to finish it. With my group, wasn't going to happen).
11th grade:
The Great Gatsby, Macbeth, The Secret Life of Bees, Catcher in the Rye
12th grade:
1984, The World According to Garp, currently reading Twelfth Night (we had the choice of that, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, and The Tempest. The girls all voted on that one because the teacher mentioned that She's the Man was based off of it. I wanted to read Merchant of Venice, but Twelfth Night isn't so bad.)
We had to read so much Eugene O'Neill in 12th grade. Desire Under the Elms, The Iceman Cometh, Long Day's Journey... it was ridiculous >_>
The Great Gatsby was really great, I thoroughly enjoyed the drama. I didn't enjoy A Farewell to Arms.
Uh uh uh uh
Anyone have to read Waiting for Godot? We had a huge Beckett thing too. And Edward Albee.
Man, 12th grade English would've been enjoyable if I actually did the homework.
Switch, amazing how close Ontario and Alberta are...
Anyways, some of the high school ones we've read include:
-Julius Caesar/Merchant of Venice (we had choice. I picked Merchant because I own Caesar)
-Macbeth
-Hamlet
-Death of a Salesman
-To Kill A Mockingbird
-Animal Farm
-Treasure Island (Grade 9 I think)
-One of the Bourne books (we did it to tie into our film analysis)
-The Kite Runner
-Catch 22
Not really a heavy list by any means. We put much more emphasis on poetry and short stories. We did something like 25 short stories in Grades 9 and 10, 15 in Grade 11, and about eight higher end ones (that we needed every detail memorized) in 12.
Quote from: NintendoMan74 on February 27, 2010, 01:37:07 AM
I did not like Things Fall Apart really. It just seemed a little too bland to me. However, it's just way too intercourse ing confusing to figure out why Okonkwo killed himself. I mean really, for a guy who considers himself to be one of the toughest guys in his clan, he's a real vagina-y.
Well, I guess you have to understand the character to like the book and the actions he takes.
We should be reading Catch 22 after Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. And then a couple others, but I can't remember their names.
*9th Grade*
Mythology
Oedipus (all three)
Odyssey
Romeo and Juliet
...probably more, but that's all I can remember.
*10th Grade*
Anthem
1984
Fahrenheit 451
A Separate Peace
Lord of the Flies
...more, but that's all I can remember.
*11th Grade*
(see first post).
Next year I'll be taking AP English. My English teacher now says that there are less books, but we'll be reading Plato, Socrates, and people like that. So the reading will be heavier. Plus, she'll grade things a lot harshly. An A or B in this class would probably get a C or C+, possibly B-.
Quote from: mackormoses on February 27, 2010, 01:42:35 PM
Switch, amazing how close Ontario and Alberta are...
Anyways, some of the high school ones we've read include:
-Julius Caesar/Merchant of Venice (we had choice. I picked Merchant because I own Caesar)
-Macbeth
-Hamlet
-Death of a Salesman
-To Kill A Mockingbird
-Animal Farm
-Treasure Island (Grade 9 I think)
-One of the Bourne books (we did it to tie into our film analysis)
-The Kite Runner
-Catch 22
Not really a heavy list by any means. We put much more emphasis on poetry and short stories. We did something like 25 short stories in Grades 9 and 10, 15 in Grade 11, and about eight higher end ones (that we needed every detail memorized) in 12.
You guys got to read Animal Farm in class? You're lucky. The Kite Runner was one of our ISU choices this year, but I chose Ender's Game instead.
I wish we got to read Catch 22. We have Wuthering Heights instead.
Grade 9:
Romeo & Juliet
The Iliad
The Odyssey
To Kill A Mockingbird
Cask of Amontillado
Grade 10:
Didn't read any full books/stories. Just stuff from lit books like...
Lamb To The Slaughter
Grade 11:
Fahrenheit 451
Huck Finn
(one or more two books next tri, not sure what, I think Of Mice and Men)